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The Girl with Eggshell Skin

There was a girl with eggshell skin
Who never could let sunlight in.

For if she did, the skin must crack
And with it leak a yellow sack

Of beating yolk that longed to be
With others, where they took their seed.

They paid no mind. They did not know
The sorrowed song began to grow.

Until one day, she took a fall
From

Categories: eggshell, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Blank Slate Man

A room's whites cry loud
Still sound fills it with endless echo
No thought, no audible breath, no
Perspective
This view too is
Outside perceivable depth
Only a snowy canvas
Full of emptiness to reveal
The plan
Grab a roller
Pour the can, and 
Paint myself eggshell
Now I am the blank slate 
Man

Categories: eggshell, extended metaphor, introspection, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Eggshell Days

Eggshell Days

We are walking on eggshells and trying not to break them
Do this, don’t do that! To wear a mask or not?
Life used to be so simple
Is it he, she, they or, none?
African American, Black, African Canadian?
Indigenous, Indian, Native?
What will it all be next week?
Confusion is setting in!
The young think the old have become stupid
The

Categories: eggshell, introspection,
Form: Free verse

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The Eggshell Waltz

It’s a ballet of carefully choreographed mistakes
a tiptoe dance through a delicate maze 
a sudden splinter to catch a thorn
barefoot floor where the eggshells are strewn

Playing the hide and seek of apology 
the simple words of a dangerous weaponry
and bruised by any insignificance
one is conducted into the orchestra of the eggshell dance

Careful to mind the

Categories: eggshell, hurt, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse

Encased In An Eggshell

This world, this existence, this reality, remains so shaky
That living here seems to be like a stay inside an eggshell!
Why, from the uncertainty of the actual moment
To the dramatic shadows looming above the future
Living in the mundane plane remains so fragile!

Lives get lost within a flick of the eyelids
Empires crumble within seconds
Seas turn into swirling

Categories: eggshell, life,
Form: Free verse

A Robin's Eggshell Color

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Never looking up to see the sky
                                       A "Robin's eggshell" color
Nor noticing or appreciating

Categories: eggshell, life,
Form: Free verse

A Cold, Cracked Eggshell

My heart shattered glass
My eyes twin rain clouds
My sleeves wet rag cloths
My sobs persistent freight trains
My fingers frozen ice
My surroundings a blurry dream
I make the corners of my lips curve up for the people around me
Even though I myself is a cold, cracked eggshell
Only barely held together.

Categories: eggshell, pain,
Form: Free verse

.a Cracked Eggshell.

A broken mirror reflecting 
all my imperfections.
A giant blade that's cutting me into 
many different sections.
rip out my heart, bastard.
throw it on the floor.
destroy it on the count of three.
and i will beg for more.
for more.

Categories: eggshell, death
Form: Rhyme

Eggshell Heart

See this heart
fragile like an eggshell
it’s been to Hell and back
and is slowly fusing back together
handle it with care
because she never did
she was never there
See this heart
fragile like an eggshell
Treat it well
like she never could
like she never wanted to
See this heart
fragile like an eggshell
please don’t bid it farewell
as easily as she did

Categories: eggshell, angst, depression, lost love,
Form: Lyric

Retort From Inside the Eggshell

I winced disenchantment whenever you fell
Through countless absurdities I held my tongue
While you courted your daydreams from hell.

I mastered the rules willing all to be well
As you blitzed career ladders splintering each rung
I winced disenchantment whenever you fell.

I laid low, so fierce your desire to excel
Your mint julep put-downs like scorpions stung
While you courted your

Categories: eggshell, husband, life, lost love,
Form: Villanelle

Treading On Eggshell

What ever I say turns into a fight
When will you ever get me right?
Once you have a certain perception
It changes the idea of your conception 
And when I stay it bluntly as I do
You take it wrong because the insecurity lies in YOU!
I can admit my mistakes and more
Just remember I m older and I

Categories: eggshell, life, me, people, social,
Form: I do not know?